Of the OBUS.
THE Obus is a バrt of mortar, which is to be fired horizontally
like a cannon, and has a carriage with wheels, or a wheel-carriage the
ヂme as cannon.
This piece
is repreテnted by Fig. 1. Plate X.
It is uテd to throw bombs into the platform of a baフion, or the middle
of a party of t men*. The Engliド and Dutch were the inventors of
this kind of mortar; the firフ which were テen in France were taken at
the battle of Nerwind, which the marドal de Luxemburg gain'd
againフ the allies in 1693.